Ah, the Crown
Vic. It's synonymous with the police car, grandpa's car .. and now,
just as Ford has stopped production, the Crown Victoria is becoming a
very hip car. Gale Holland of the Los Angeles Times explains:
Like a cockroach, however, the Crown Vic is resilient. It's already
begun quietly colonizing civilian car culture, notably in Los Angeles
County, where the number now in private hands — 38,000 —
is second only to that in metropolitan New York, according to auto information
company Edmunds.com.
This is confounding on multiple counts. The Crown Vic, the last
of the roomy, rear-drive American sedans, is the ultimate grandma and
grandpa car. Like the trucker cap before it, is irony its appeal?
The Crown Vic is dead. Long live the Crown Vic.
Perhaps the mystique of the Crown Vic can be summed up in this
comment by a car forum commenter: "It just ... tickles me that
there's a group about an ex-police vehicle modified for almost the exact
opposite type of drivers and purposes."
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